![]() ![]() ![]() Ravn’s imagery in these passages is both beautiful and intensely enigmatic. Read Full Review >Īt first, the statements are chiefly concerned with describing the new objects. Objecthood, meanwhile, can be the animating force behind everything. ![]() In Ravn’s telling, humanity is sometimes as mute and yielding as objecthood, especially when steered between the trammels of a workday. The actual business of the Six Thousand Ship is nevertheless wholly modern: resource extraction, as employees make occasional excursions to harvest commodities known only as 'objects.' These soon come to derail-delightfully-both the ship’s functioning and its crew’s philosophizing. Like the figures of an epic, the workers seem composed of equal parts fate and randomness, automation and rebellion. The Employees feels close to Greek mythology. Readers can only guess which character is behind which statement, a situation further complicated by the fact that some members of the crew are humanoids rather than 'born' humans. For the reader.time functions like a loose knob, to be rolled and fiddled with desultorily you can read The Employees according to pagination or statement number, but the ending never changes, a narrative deadlock that Ravn pulls off with grace. ![]()
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